I want everyone to know that I did manage to find New Moon at Barnes and Noble and therefore did not have to wait a week. I managed to finish all three books within 3 days of writing my last post. At the moment I’m heavily anticipating the fourth book and have already read the rough draft of the first chapter of Edward’s story (Midnight Sun) that Stephenie Meyer is planning on writing. It’s deliciously good, and if you’re interested in reading it, why don’t you head on over to her official website and click on ‘Other Projects’?

While there, I managed to find out that she’s planning on releasing a new book in May. It will be released as mainstream fiction, not young adult fiction. I can’t remember the title, but I’ll definitely give it a shot. I’m trying to do everything to help make the wait a little more bearable, and if that means stalking Stephenie Meyer via her website, I shall do it.

I wish I could think of something else besides Twilight to talk about right now, but nothing else is springing to mind. So, for all of you Twilight fans, please be sure to leave your long essay length rants in my comments. It’d be interesting to see what everyone else thinks about it. Are you heavily anticipating the next book, Breaking Dawn? Already have it preordered? Will you be there for the midnight parties? Do you think Twilight is the new Harry Potter?

Of course, you all know that I’m heavily anticipating the next book. Shockingly, I don’t have mine preordered yet, but I’ll get around to it sometime in June/July. As for being there at midnight…It is tempting, but it depends on if the book will be released on Tuesday or if it’ll be released during the weekend. And yes, I do think the series is the new Harry Potter.

I’m sure most of you already know about the Twilight movie that will be premiering in December of this year. The actor who played Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies will be playing Edward. I’m a little skeptical on this simply because the actor who played Krum was better looking than him, and according to the books, Krum isn’t a looker, but Cedric is. I saw a picture of the actor (Robert something) and he looked like my vision of Edward in one picture, and then not so much in another picture. Another thing is, knowing that the actor is British, will he keep his accent or will he work on a neutral mid-western accent for the movie? Does anyone know anything about it?

Errgh! I finished Twilight a couple hours ago and I’m quite happy. That book is just so amazing. The trials that a relationship between a human and vampire have are just astounding. I don’t think my emotions (or my heart rate) have been so affected by a novel. Edward and Bella’s relationship is just so beautiful to watch that I begin to involuntarily smile. This usually happens when I’m reading an uber cute manga (e.g. Fruits Basket, Lovely Complex), but it just so happens that Twilight is the very first novel (I think) to have accomplished that very feat.

However, I’m now feeling frustrated and anxious and I don’t think I can start writing the next chapter of Zincian Legend: The Chosen if I don’t vent. So be warned, about 95% or more of the rest of this post will be venting.

So, I was at the mall today hoping to buy New Moon knowing that I was going to finish reading Twilight by tonight. I was not expecting that both of the bookstores in town were, le gasp, OUT OF STOCK! I know for a fact that two weeks ago they had New Moon in stock. So why now? So I found that to be quite frustrating. I did, however, order it at B. Dalton (even though I hate that store) and was told it would take a week to come in. However, my father happily reminded (probably to get me out of my shocked, depressed state) that we could go to the nearby city to check if their bigger and better bookstores had it in stock. The problem: we’re going in the morning tomorrow. And that would be the reason of my anxiety. Can’t tomorrow come sooner? I could sleep, but even though I’m tired, I don’t think I’m capable of sleep. It’s almost like the same anxiety one gets the night before the first day of school that makes sleep impossible to find. I did, however, buy Eclipse, the third installment to the series today because my friend was joking to me that when I went to get New Moon today (like me, she thought I was definitely getting the book… ) that they would magically be out of stock of the last book tomorrow (which was probably when I’d finish the second book anyway… So out of precaution, I went ahead and bought it.

*sigh* My friend is coming over tomorrow, which is exciting. We share a lot interests (could she be my sister from another mother?) and we haven’t seen each other in a while because she attends college now. I believe we’ll be playing Disney Scene It? and I’ve already recruited my brother because it’s soooo much more fun to play it in a group rather than two people. She’s quite educated in Disney just like me, so she won’t be sitting there like my poor dad was when me and my brother recruited him. I felt so bad because he didn’t know any of the answers except one or two!!

Now that I’m calm again, I think I’ll run off and start on that new chapter. My novel-in-the-making is still quite rough, but I think the first quarter of it or so is actually…dare I say it? Publishable. Time will tell how the rest of it looks…

They wanted to get that book Saturday, lock themselves in the house and read it, because they didn’t want their other friends by Monday telling them who made it and who didn’t.

-Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros.

In the U.S. alone, 8.3 million copies of the 12 million that Scholastic has published of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have been taken off the shelves within the first 24 hours. According to these wonderful statistics in the paper, that’s 50,000 copies per minute. And you know what? I was one of those people who locked themselves in their bedroom on Saturday so I knew who was going to make it and who wasn’t. I managed to finish the 759 page book within the 24 hours I started it.

I was out in the mall waiting in this huge line - it was longer than the one I waited for to get HBP, not to mention I ended up right smack in the middle of this one, whereas I was like first or second to get HBP. The wait, I suppose, wasn’t too bad. I got back to the car around 12:40, and began reading the book around 1 I suppose. The costumes at the Harry Potter party were decent, I saw a rather good Trelawney and there was the Fat Lady standing behind me in line. Anyways, at the party you could feel this excitement in the air; it was quite electrifying. Then all of a sudden, people were chanting “10…9…8…” there were loud screams by the time we reached one. I remember this guy in front of me mentioning that it was like New Year’s, which I suppose we were acting like it was New Year’s.

Now that the series is over, I’m not sure what J.K. Rowling is planning on doing. Perhaps take a nice long break? But hey, out of all 7, my favorite is still PoA. You can’t go wrong with having Harry finding out there are people who actually care for him, you know?

Oh! Before I leave, I’ve been tagged by Jeannie. So, the game is you have to take your iPod/music player playlist and shuffle the songs. Then you list the first 10 and tag 5 more people. However, because most of my online friends have already been tagged…I’ll tag 3.

1. He Lives in You - Lion King 2 Soundtrack

2. Mine - Pocahontas Soundtrack

3. Sepia no Hi - CardCaptor Sakura

4. Despertar - Aisha Duo

5. Colors of the Wind - Pocahontas Soundtrack

6. For Fruits Basket - Fruits Basket Soundtrack

7. Atlantis Princess - BoA

8. I Do - Ghost in the Shell Soundtrack

9. Kocci wo Muite - Meiling Li (Cardcaptor Sakura)

10. One Step Beyond - Karsh Kale

And now I tag: Crystal, Morgan, and Zoe!

If anyone wants to rant about the latest Harry Potter go ahead and rant away. I’d like to hear your take on it and what your favorite book of the series is.